The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-01-28
NEWS AND OTHER HOTINGs.

I There Is said to be no danger of a small.
pox epidemic at Atlantic City, as was repor
ted
j. H Eugei. of SunburY, died on the
END inst, OF blood poisoning the result OF
a partially developed case Of hydrophobia.
The coal handlers strike continues
without any signs Of either compromise by
the companies or the defeat OF the strikers
Several families of JeanesviIe. Pa, have
been dangerously i'll from eating cheese sap
posed to be poisoned. The cheese will Se
submitted to an analysis.
james Burke, a roller, at the Columbia
Rolling Mill. Lancaster, fell into the rolls
on Thursday Of last week, and was Grawn
( through twice. He died soon after.
Franklin NYe. father OF the well known
! humorist "BilP' Nye, died OF congestion OF
the lungs at his house. in River Falls. Wis.
Wednesday of last week. BE was 80 years
old.
The Pottstown Iron Company, which
/ employs about 400 men and boys. Is rsduc-
ing its working force, and has begun by
discharging 100 Hungarians at the steel
works.
The secret art of beauty lies not In cos
metics, but is only in pure blood and
healthy performance OF the vital functions,
which can be obtained by using Burdock
Blood Bitters.
"A disastrous fire swept over the prairie
north Of Tab queh, 1. T.. lest week The
wind was blowing almust a hurricane. Hay.
fences and every rythinR of the kind were de-
strOyed for miles around.
james Frown, Of Latrobe missed his
footing while attempting to board a moving
train at that place about O'Clock Saturday
afternoon. and falling between the CARS had
one OF his legs cut off above the knee.
Last week, while well digRers we're en-
Raged IN sinking we'll at Clayton, near st
Louis, they struck a rich vein of coal at the
depth OF 53 feet. The coal is of excellent
quality, but the extent OF the vein is no.
known. A shaft will be sunk at once
The Church Of the Holy Name, on the
corner of Ninety seventh street and Tenth
th" poor boxes and the receptacies OF three
altais forced opeL IN search OF plunder' The
mscreants got but little for their trouble, but
did a good Geal OF damage.
"A panther has been the exciting topic of
Peorie, ILL.,, for several weeks past, and on
! last Saturday Ed A CrandaI succeeded In
bringing it down with heavy charge of
buckshot. The animal was feet inches
Ions, and weighed IS pounds. 1t bad pro5a-
bly, escaped from a mensgerie.
Scott Sherwood, a lawyer of Y New York,
was arrested late Friday night for swindIIng
an old couple named Johnston out Of SIS 600,
which he collected from item In small sums,
oste nsibly to invest elsewhere. When arrest
| ed, Sherwood was preparing to join the
American colony in Canada.
"A young man named Krebs, employed
as a brakeman on the Western division P r.
| R. feil from the top Of car at Derry, on
Friday evening. and three heavily laden coal
/ cars pass ever his right arm severIng it
/ from his body He was sent to the West
| Penn hospital, PittsburR. for treatment
The twenty four hour system OF standard
time was endorsed by the American Society
/ OF Civil Engineers at its annual meeting the
other day In New York city. The engineers
/ were civil enough not TO boycott the railway
companies which have failed to become con-
verts to the beauties of the new system,
Dispatches received at Washington by
/ the Secretary of State, say that the deaths in
Buenos AyIes, from AsiatIc cholera. IN last
/ November were ninety three, and that busi
ness was virtually suspended. The govern
ment authorities are working enereeticaly
to extIrpate the plague by modern Methods
Two men who were confined In the Jail
at Warren, Brs dley county, Arkansas, on a
| charge OF murder, were removed by party
of masked men on last Thursday night, and
. taken TO the banks of the Arkansas river
where they were hanged, and their bodies
afterward cut down and thrown Into the
stream.
Ex-senator Kellogg, when Chief Justice
of Nebraska. before the war, traded pair
of horses for seven acres of land near Oma-
ha The other day he sold one lot from the
plot for SOS. 600 and the entire tract is said
to be worth quarter million. Kellogg has
fine properties in Washington and Chicago,
and is millionaire.
The artesian we'll at New Orleans on
Wednesday of last week struck water at the
depth of 700 feet, and is now throwing out
200 600 gallons per day Of pure water, which
rises % feet above the surface The new
well solves the important problem of furnish
ing the city with a supply OF pure water. as
it depends almost wholly upon cstern water
for drinking purposes.
The Pension Office, Washington. has in
formation that II, p. Metcalf, Of Denver,
Col, was arrested on Friday, at Norwich,
Conn.,, charged with raising a Government
pension check from SIS to $3.50 20. 1t ap-
pears that Metcalf Is peDsioner, and on
Dec. 10 his quarterly check for S1S was sent
to him, which, it Is charged, he skilfuIly
raised to the amount named.
During the.trial OF a case In a Court of
Tazewell county, Virginia, recently, NJ. q
Baldwin, witDess for the plaintiff, became
aDgeIed at a remark made by Col. May, the
counsel for the defense, and fired five shots
from r revolver at him, woundinR him in the
leg. May return ed the fire with two shots
but missed Baldwin. -Four OF the spectators
were hit, but not seriously Injured.
"A band OF masked men rode up TO the
house of Fritz .Steinholts, a farmer living
near Houston Texas and. calling him to the
door, seized, bound and gagged him. and a,
the point OF the pistol forced him - reveal
the whereabouts of money which he had
J buried, the savings of fourteen years. Tie
robbers, after securing the money, about
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